Old Denstonians

Denstone College is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Denstone, Staffordshire, England. Its alumni are known as Old Denstonians (ODs). The Denstone Association looks after the College's alumni.

ODs

• Peter Brinson – writer and lecturer on dance[1]
• Charles Feingold – Chief Milk Monitor, 1974–1975
• Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn – Chief Manager of the HSBC Bank and member of the Hong Kong Resistance who died a prisoner of the Japanese in 1943
• Peter Gerald "Spam" Hammersley CB OBE – Rear Admiral, Royal Navy[2]
• Frederick George Jackson – Arctic explorer[3]
• John Makepeace OBE – furniture designer[4]
• Keith Mant – forensic pathologist and war crime investigator[5]
• William Whitehead Watts – President of the Geological Society (1910–1912)[6]
• Major General Ralph Wooddisse – British Army officer

Churchmen

• Charles MacAlester Copland – clergyman[7]
• Philip Pasterfield – Bishop of Crediton (1974–1984)[8]
• Dennis Victor – Bishop of Lebombo[9]

Politicians and lawyers

• Geoffrey Cheshire FBA – barrister and jurist[10]
• Warren Hawksley – Conservative Member of Parliament
• Asda Jayanama – diplomat
• Lord Justice Kay – Lord Justice of Appeal[11]

Sportsmen

• Arthur Berry – England footballer, double Olympic gold medallist and former Chairman of Liverpool Football Club[12]
• Phil Davies – rugby player
• Alastair Hignell – rugby union and cricket player[13]
• Harvey Hosein – English cricketer
• N. F. Humphreys – 1910 British Lions player (died in World War I)[14]
• Tommy Kemp – rugby union fly half for England 1931–1948
• Sam Lewis – rugby union lock/flanker for Leicester Tigers
• Tim Mason – cricketer
• David Short – Derbyshire cricketer
• Jeremy Snape – England cricketer[15]
• Ben White – rugby union scrum half for Leicester Tigers

Writers and broadcasters

• Quentin Crisp – writer and actor[16]
• René Cutforth – journalist
• Alex Lester – broadcaster
• Petre Mais (S. P. B. Mais) – author and broadcaster
• Tim Marlow – writer, broadcaster and art historian
• Richard Morris – archaeologist and writer
• Guy Thorne – pseudonym: Cyril Arthur Edward Justice Waggoner Ranger Gull, (1876–1923), novelist and journalist[17]

See also

• Category:People educated at Denstone College.

References

1. Robinson, Ken (2004). "Brinson, Peter Neilson (1920–1995)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 October 2009. External link in |work= (help)
2. "Hammersley, Rear-Adm. Peter Gerald". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press; A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 19 February 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18815. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
3. Savitt, Ronald. Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897. Polar Record 43 (224): 55–66 (2007)
4. The Furniture Society – John Makepeace biography
5. The Guardian – Keith Mant obituary, 16 November 2000
6. William Whitehead Watts. 1860–1947. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 6, No. 17 (Nov. 1948), pp. 263–279
7. Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
8. Who's Who 1992 "(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)
9. Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
10. The Times – Obituary: Professor G. C. Cheshire—Influential writer on the law, 28 October 1978
11. Downing Street – Privy Council Appointments Archived 2 January 2004 at the Wayback Machine, 19 May 2000
12. Daily Post, Liverpool FC's Javier Mascherano wants gold Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 2008-08-22, accessed 14 February 2010
13. University of Bristol – Honorary degrees awarded at the University today, 12 July 2004
14. CWGC -
15. Cricinfo – Jeremy Snape player profile
16. The Independent – Quentin Crisp, 2 November 1999
17. Philip J. Waller, Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870–1918, Oxford University Press, 2006, p.1011 ISBN 0-19-820677-1 ISBN 978-0198206774

External links

• Denstone College Website
• Denstone Association